Pranksters flood Subway’s Facebook page with anime sandwich porn

“$5 Footlong” has taken on a whole new meaning thanks to a group of mischievous anime porn fans.

Subway may want to clean up its Facebook page, because fans of animated pornography have given the “Five Dollar Footlong” a whole new meaning.

Early Wednesday morning, dozens of pseudonymous contributors flooded the restaurant’s official Facebook page with obscene photos of anime characters enjoying foot-long sandwiches (link is NSFW). In each pornographic image, male and female genitalia have been replaced with food.

According to one of the submitters who spoke to the Daily Dot, identifying herself only as Ember, the majority of the photos originated on Hatsune Miku Troll, a Facebook fan page dedicated to Miku Hatsune, an animated pop star in Japan.

“Hatsuke Miku Troll started making daily sandwich pics censoring with a subway sandwich and their logo,” Ember told the Daily Dot. “So, the admin of that page asked if they should post the pictures to subway’s page. Of course, a bunch of people agreed and joined in. We all went to websites for original pictures, saved them, opened them up in Photoshop or whatever other editing program we had, and placed the sandwich pic and or logo in there. Subway also banned us from the page afterwards, which isn’t surprising at all.”

Other photos originate in a FacePunch forums thread (also NSFW) dedicated to Photoshopping Subway sandwiches into hentai (a Japanese term for porn comics). Though the thread began on Dec. 26, 2011, its most recent post is from 36 hours ago.

Based on participants’ submissions and comments, the meme doesn’t originate from any ill will for either porn or Subway sandwiches. It’s just a bizarre juxtaposition.

UPDATE: The Daily Dot has received the following statement via email from a social media marketing agency representing Subway:

We are aware of the excessive spam on our Facebook wall and have removed all content that is in direct violation of our House Rules. We are in contact with Facebook to investigate the matter further and enact a swift resolution.